I did. Penny Lane was a typical peppy Paul McCartny song, and till this day I'm amazed how enormous its appeal still is. Strawberry Fields took a bit longer to digest... but in 1967 the psychedelia was EXPLODING, and this new movement was a revelation to me. Reversed tapes, electronic voices, distorted hammonds and the magical Mellotron. (Manfred Mann was one of the first one using it, in Semi-Detached Suburban Mr James, 1966 and that was only the beginning of the musical vacuum cleaner sound!) I remember thinking, "This is the end of pop, it's impossible to get any better and more revolutionary than this. Of course I couldn't have been more wrong. But I was 18 years old, and naive. Not as naive as my parents and grandparent! "In five years from now they will be forgotten. " 😁 1966, 1967 and 1968 have always been the super groundbreaking years for me. My real adult phase in music. In 1963, only 4 years earlier! - the physical and mental shock that I Wanna Hold Your Hand gave me was huge - yet I could never have guessed that pop evolution would come as far as it did in the Summer of Love...and in 1969 Crosby Stills & Nash were another revolution, less gimmickry, but certainly sensational again. I'm grateful that it happened in my time of youth and being 'hip'. Others had to grow up with ' old man' Elvis and granny Connie Francis. Who I nevertheless started to appreciate a full decade later. But Elvis stopped being important for me when the Beatles had five singles in the American top 10. Those were the days.
Pity their big hit single Walk Away Renee was later covered by the Four Tops, which is the version most people remember now. Not sure why the Tops had to do it at all - were Holland/Dozier/Holland on leave at the time?
@@Krzyszczynski I don't think "Renee" fit the 4 Tops style. The baroque strings and stuff seemed very unique to the Left Banke. I do however, think the Dickies did a hilarious but very tight and respectful version of the Bankes " Pretty Ballerina".'
I was a runty 11-year-old 6th grader in Dallas TX in Feb. '67; school in a silly boy's prep school all week long (my sisters attended the sister institution), religious education at our synagogue on weekends. I was a dumb little clod who didn't realize that much of the greatest music in the history of human civilization was coming out of the radio jumbled up among the inane car ads and department store sales promos. Within a year or two I wised up as adolescence took hold and I began to take stock of the world in all its terror and glory. Thank you for revisiting those miraculous years.
I'm from Dallas Texas too but wasn't born until the 90s. Too bad. I've been following this channel for a while and I can tell I missed out on some great music back then. Thank goodness for CZcams. It really is the closest thing we have to a time machine.
@@DwellerHollowMusic You beat me to it! I was just about to say the same thing. The clip of the Hollies singing On a Carousel was impressive, but to my ear they could sometimes be a bit strident. I think the Zombies definitely had the edge. How could they not, with the great Colin Blunstone?
While I knew many of these acts from the time, I’m always surprised to learn of so many quality bands that just didn’t quite make it and simply faded into obscurity. Also, great insight into what musicians like Jeff Beck, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker were doing before they each became household names. Another fascinating flashback YP, thank you kindly.
This video started out with the great Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane record then went to the Hollies all time best On A Carousel then went to the Smoke My Friend Jack which to me is this underrated band best hit. 2023 has been gloomy with the horrible earthquake in Syria and Turkey and in the U.S mass shootings and the Tyre Nichols tragedy but when one hears The Eyes Of Blue Supermarket Full Of Cans any gloom goes away fast with this snappy tune. Thanks again Yesterday's Papers for posting this video and it proves the UK in February 1967 was putting out some great music.
Thanks, Darrell. Your comment about the Eyes of Blue is spot on. That's such a great, upbeat track. It's definitely the sort of song that will brighten your darkest day. The chorus is irrestible and always brings a smile to my face. "You can't find love like us in a supermarket full of cans". That's genius.
I'm not a massive Beatles fan, but God, "Strawberry fields Forever" is one the most magical songs ever recorded. I feel sorry for The Game, they seemed to be a good group, they just had bad luck.
"My Friend Jack"! Didn't become familiar with this until I bought the "Nuggets II" anthology and heard this superb acid-era gem in middle age. That and the follow-up ("High In A Room") - those two songs alone entitle The Smoke to immortal status regardless of the obliviousness of corrupt gatekeepers like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Nice hat, Brian 3:08 😍It's lovely to see the footage of 1960s London, people looked way more happy and chilled out back then, no cell phones, just enjoying life and good music. "Strawberry Fields" has always been one of my favorite Beatles songs, there was nothing that sounded like it before and there been nothing quite like it since, I love hearing your instrumental version of that song too, YP. Always cool to hear when you use it in your videos. Great video and music as always 😘❤
That's how I feel too when seeing footage from those times. Nowadays everyone always seems to look so worried - with reason, of course - and they all wear such dull utilitarian clothing, often with tattoos showing (eurgh!).
Brilliantly enjoyable and informative, as always. I'd forgotten all about 'My Friend Jack eats Sugar Lumps', which I loved at the time. And now it's stuck in my head 🤪
These were the records I hunted for in the 1980s when the comps started coming out. Bought some crummy unknown 45s along the way to finding the gems though. Your videos are a blast. Every time you namedrop another killer record I used to own like Supermarket Full Of Cans I laugh out loud!
Thank you for another wonderful video. I love this series, to me 1967 is the best year ever musically. And there's always some gems to discover or re-discover.
What a glorious list of songs, YP! Not a bad one in the bunch. It's both a shame and a joy that the charts of the time were so filled with classics that so many great groups couldn't get a foothold of their own. The real winners were us, spoilt for choice and only so much in the pocketbook. ♥
You have a right to be biased. The Beatles are as we say in the States the GOAT-greatest of all time. I am a native Angeleno and biased towards the Beach Boys compared with other 1960s American bands. We have an understanding mate.
@@paulnolan4971 The doors & jefferson airplain. Im more kinda newer to jefferson airplain than the doors. But jefferson airplain are very unusually different and very interesting. Jefferson airplain are different to any other band of that time and in a great unique way. White rabbit sounds like nothing else, full stop!!!!
Thank you, YP, for another video in a great series. I love The Soft Machine. Loved seeing such a youthful and vibrant Robert Wyatt, before he had that unfortunate accident, where he fell out of a fourth story window and became a paraplegic. Didn’t stop him, though. He had a prolific solo career.
Did Robert Wyatt always perform bare-chested? I've a fairly distinct memory of his doing so even at their history-making appearance in the 1970 Promenade Concerts at the Albert Hall.
@@Krzyszczynski Robert didn’t always perform bare-chested. There’s lots of photos and footage of Robert playing with a shirt or sweater or whatever he happened to be wearing that day. He’s just well known for playing without a shirt.
Another excellent episode on the sixties psychedelic music scene. I'd never known about The Eyes of Blue before this. Strawberry Fields Forever is an absolute masterpiece in my opinion.
A few things I hadn't heard, really good as usual. The lacklustre reviews of Strawberry Fields/ Penny Lane are hard to believe...Tom Mcguinness told me trying to be as good as The Beatles was certainly an issue for MM. I got bored with a 45 I owned as a small boy, and can remember squashing it down in the dustbin. That record was an original copy of Vaccum Cleaner by Tintern Abbey :-) Hhhh...however I do own the Gibson fuzz pedal John Mcnally used on Have You Ever Loved Somebody. Sorry to go off topic...I have been telling the guy who runs the Del Shannon fanclub about your excellent psych era Del film..also there is an interview with Del's wife and son on YT now which is interesting. Keep up the great work! Marc Lemon
I love your videos! I never knew that Mellotronics put an ad in a newspaper to thanks the Beatles for using their machine. So I learn something and will love to had that ad! Thank for you high quality video about psychedelia! 😎
Its interesting to note that i played my 17yr old grandson the track by Vanilla Fudge You Keep me Hanging On He went ape shit! No kidding he thought it was incredible & a blast Couldn't believe it was cut in the mid 1960s. He said it could be played anywhere today & gain a following! Lord he makes me proud & hes carrying on my great love of incredible music. I read a funny article about the Manfreds singer Paul Jones whos real name was Paul Pond was an Oxford Uni student & so desp for dosh, auditioned for the Manfreds! Rest is history! I also liked The Herd, they made some good stuff You should do a vid on Terry Reid he was a brilliant singer & could have been Zepps lead singer but for another commitment. Thanks for the vids 🇬🇧👧 Any music from the origional Tyrranausaurus Rex from the Magical Moon & Lofty Spires days My special faves from then.
1967 surely was one of the best ever years in music!. Two of my favourites there too, wooden Spoon by The Poets and My Friend Jack by The Smoke. Superb YP love these longer videos
What a time to be alive, as far as popular music was concerned! I propose that late 66’ - early ’67 was the real beginnings of “rock music”, as we think of it today, with its mix of psychedelia, blues, and pop with hooks, elements of jazz & classical. The creative, innovative 'ante' seemed to be constantly raised with each passing month, both musically and lyrically - The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Soft Machine, Cream in England, and on the other side of the Atlantic, in the U.S. with bands like the Airplane, the Dead, Buffalo Springfield, the Doors, MoI - all well on their way to steering popular music away the 45 rpm singles format, to rock music’s primary format, the album.
Wooden Spoon hit me immediately! I had to look that song up and holy moly, it is incredible! I never would have heard this if it wasn’t for you! Thank you.
This has to be the best one of these yet, as February 1967 was *such* a heady month. There had of course been a few UK acts making excellent groundbreaking psych in '66 (Yardbirds, Beatles, Donovan, Stones, Creation, Mick Softley, Barry Mason) but it was in this month that everybody suddenly seemed to jump on the bandwagon, and came out with masterpiece after masterpiece! I love how you also focus on a lot of the trippy stuff that was making it onto the B-sides, often even better (and wilder) than what made the A's. There's not a single that I think you missed in this episode and I greatly look forward to March which will bring us delights from The Jimi Hendrix Experience (will you be counting this act? Two-thirds was British, lol!), Pink Floyd, Jeff Beck, The Move, The Small Faces, The Attack, The Zombies, The Drag Set, Magic Lanterns ("Time Will Tell"), The Montanas ("Anyone There"), Alan Bown ("I Really Really Care") and if we go by US release dates, The Yardbirds and Eric Burdon & The Animals (although I understand if you want to stick with the later UK release dates on those). As usual, I'm also amazed at all the rare footage you are able to find, especially for The Smoke and John's Children. I nominate this series of '67 British Singles clips the best thing to happen over the past year...I'm having a blast!!!
What a splendid video again YP! And what a great bands you had in the UK! "Strawberry Fields Forever" is my favorite Beatles song! Interesting how psychedelic music developed! Thanks a lot! 🎶👌
Along with Tomorrow Never Knows and Rain, SFF is among my fave rave Beatles track. Unbelievably amazing. All ground breaking. The Game made some incredible singles, the best in my opinion being Gonna Get me Someone. Always loved My Friend Jack. Breathtaking. As is, It could be Wonderful.
Love Graham Bond's music, especially his Holy Magick stuff.A very troubled soul bless him.Love Is The Law album is well worth checking out. Thank you for another great video.
Even in the context of all the great music on the channel, Strawberry Fields Forever seems like one musical era closing and a new one beginning. 1966 was the marketing getting more psychedelic and more complicated. Strawberry Fields announced that pop music had arrived at that new place. But it takes hearing it along with what was contemporary at the time to really appreciate it. What a great history lesson all these videos are.
Fascinating as ever, thanks.Great to have some more info on The Smoke, always loved that tune. But the revelation here is the Graham Bond track. If there was ever a British band that came close to the brutal cyclic attack of The Velvet Underound's 'Sister Ray" that might be it- plus riffs based on Arabic quartertones as well! Wild!!
The GBO had provided a kind of foretaste to You've Gotta Have Love Babe, in the form of Spanish Blues (from their Sound Of '65 album). It has the same quasi-Arabic wailing on the alto sax, and could have just as aptly been called Moroccan Blues or something of the kind.
The Beatles' mistake was to release the single as a ''double A-side'', which divided their extraordinary success in two. It was John's whim, as I have read, that he did not want to give in; he wanted his ''Strawberry Fields Forever'' to be on the A-side, but ''Penny Lane'' was much more commercial. ''Release Me'', by Engelbert Humperdinck, is a great song, but no better than the two Beatles songs. Thanks, YP. 😀😀😀
The SFF/PL single actually made #1 on the Melody Maker charts, and stayed there for three whole weeks! But it was #2 on the other three UK charts. It didn't really make a difference that it was a double-A; the group had already released two other double-A's that had effortlessly topped the charts, and SFF/PL sold around the same number of copies as those. It was mostly just bad timing, because "Release Me" was one of those fluke mega-successes that took the British adult contemporary audience by storm. But it did make #1 in Melody Maker, and of course in the US, Canada, Australia, Germany, Sweden, etc. Also, I doubt anyone today remotely remembers "Release Me", while "Strawberry Fields" is being taught in advanced college music courses worldwide! 😃
beatles were truly well ahead of the curve, all the releases alongside strawberry/penny sound like mashups of animals and who. carousel is such a fine tune this many years later.
Love - Hate - Revenge was covered by New Zealand band The Avengers. it peaked at No.2 in August 1968, giving The Avengers their biggest hit. The song was originally released by doo-wop group The Del-Satins as ‘Love, Hate, Revenge (If I Want You To Cry)’ in January 1967.
I was just a 7-year old kid, but my older brother who was 14 in 1967 brought home every new Beatle album the day it was released. I do remember hearing this for the first time. I love it, but the Monkees were my favorite band at the time.
Had a feeling this was going to drop today! Thank you again for highlighting some great tracks that deserve more love. And interesting that you note that some of these tracks sound like late 70s punk
One of my favourite games with these videos is to pause them whenever a review column is shown and read the other comments in it. No time for that right now, but I'll be back!
Have you listened to a song/record i bought eons ago & although i dont have it anymore I remember all the words & Melody. No one i know remembers it but it was by a band called Rare Bird & entitled Sympathy.. Its a fantastic sound. Peace 🇬🇧👧
Soft Machines' Love Makes Sweet Music, I searched for that single for decades! At one time I thought I had imagined the release, although I never forgot the chorus line with 'Love makes sweet music'. And then came internet and CZcams...and there it was. Half a century later! It's typical Soft Machine, not in the least because of Robert Wyatt's oddly spaced out and yet intimate voice, I never heard another singer with that kind of voice. I got all his post-SoftMachine records, the man's voice is like from a fairy tale....
Another great installment on the British scene. Prefer Strawberry Fields also for its daring sound. Penny Lane is more conventional. Funny, I just played that youtube video of the Hollies recording On a Carousel for my gf to show her just how great their harmony singing is and how great their musicianship is. She loved the drums! The Hollies are #1 in vocal harmonizing, no? That Game single is excellent but I hear The Who more than late 70's punk. Just my feeling. What a great time to be alive in 1967--such creativity on both sides of the Atlantic. Thanks again YP. You always kill it.
Wow deep dive into less known brit pop extraordinary YP I've stacks of books on this subject nice to see others get an education of the history of 60's British pop music ts very deep ! As usual great job YP PEACE!
I always felt the sound of Penny Lane was intentionally Beach Boys inspired, esp. the chorus harmonies. Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane... what a brilliant single!
I love this longer video--20 minutes! I was wondering what was up with the "anti-lust" groups--never heard about that. Enjoyed especially the "Graham Bond" and "The Game" segments--great sounds. Those are a couple bands I want to further check out. Also, 03:10 had me laughing out loud--"Those Disgusting Moustaches"! Would have loved John and Paul writing a song about that for Ringo to sing!
"THE SINGLE FAILED TO CHART" How much more do we have to hear this? because it is unfortunate that a lot of good songs were ignored by the public and quickly faded into obscurity.
Where was I when CZcams cut me off in the middle of my long-winded comments about this post? Oh yes, I was speaking about my love of early Soft Machine. My favorite of all of these, they were magic with Daevid Allen, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, and last (to the end) Ratledge. What a wonderful band, the first single, and the first album. I'd better post before CZcams decided I've talking too long.
How cool to see pics of a Beatle & a Monkee hanging together! I have to say I find it amusing and surprising that many listeners and musicians in that era didn't warm up right off the bat to some of the most melodic and hook-laden music ever written and recorded by the likes of the Beatles, Hollies etc. I found them catchy and highly satisfying as could be when I first heard them as a teen in the 80s....people are strange indeed!
On this day feb 20th in 1967 my mom turned 21, and getting spoiled by the embarrassment of riches of brilliant songs being released one after another that year.
That isolated vocal track of the Hollies Carousel is really impressive. Makes me realize how much power in their voices.
John Sirois Yeah, the Hollies always had great harmonies, regardless of the lineup.
Track list... Please
Imagine being able to hear Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane for the first time again
David bowie space oddity on the radio through headphones at age 15
during the mid 1990's was a very strange out of world experience for me.
I did. Penny Lane was a typical peppy Paul McCartny song, and till this day I'm amazed how enormous its appeal still is. Strawberry Fields took a bit longer to digest... but in 1967 the psychedelia was EXPLODING, and this new movement was a revelation to me. Reversed tapes, electronic voices, distorted hammonds and the magical Mellotron. (Manfred Mann was one of the first one using it, in Semi-Detached Suburban Mr James, 1966 and that was only the beginning of the musical vacuum cleaner sound!)
I remember thinking, "This is the end of pop, it's impossible to get any better and more revolutionary than this. Of course I couldn't have been more wrong. But I was 18 years old, and naive. Not as naive as my parents and grandparent! "In five years from now they will be forgotten. " 😁
1966, 1967 and 1968 have always been the super groundbreaking years for me. My real adult phase in music. In 1963, only 4 years earlier! - the physical and mental shock that I Wanna Hold Your Hand gave me was huge - yet I could never have guessed that pop evolution would come as far as it did in the Summer of Love...and in 1969 Crosby Stills & Nash were another revolution, less gimmickry, but certainly sensational again.
I'm grateful that it happened in my time of youth and being 'hip'. Others had to grow up with ' old man' Elvis and granny Connie Francis. Who I nevertheless started to appreciate a full decade later. But Elvis stopped being important for me when the Beatles had five singles in the American top 10.
Those were the days.
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"Hope you enjoyed this trip back to February 1967"
Yesterday's Papers is always a good trip, man!
Great sounds well presented as always, thanks!
Yeah. I love to get high while watching these episodes from this lovely channel
I love that Nash caught on early to the brilliance of the Left Banke. Great episode!
Yep, it's pretty cool that he dug the Left Banke.
Pity their big hit single Walk Away Renee was later covered by the Four Tops, which is the version most people remember now. Not sure why the Tops had to do it at all - were Holland/Dozier/Holland on leave at the time?
@@Krzyszczynski I don't think "Renee" fit the 4 Tops style. The baroque strings and stuff seemed very unique to the Left Banke. I do however, think the Dickies did a hilarious but very tight and respectful version of the Bankes " Pretty Ballerina".'
The Left Banke to me was a mix of the sound of The Zombies and The Hollies
I saw The Left Banke once, it was a great show!
I was a runty 11-year-old 6th grader in Dallas TX in Feb. '67; school in a silly boy's prep school all week long (my sisters attended the sister institution), religious education at our synagogue on weekends. I was a dumb little clod who didn't realize that much of the greatest music in the history of human civilization was coming out of the radio jumbled up among the inane car ads and department store sales promos. Within a year or two I wised up as adolescence took hold and I began to take stock of the world in all its terror and glory. Thank you for revisiting those miraculous years.
I'm from Dallas Texas too but wasn't born until the 90s. Too bad. I've been following this channel for a while and I can tell I missed out on some great music back then. Thank goodness for CZcams. It really is the closest thing we have to a time machine.
That footage of the Hollies recording the harmonies for "Carousel" was awesome
So much talent in the Hollies. In my opinion, they were the British band with the best harmonies.
this left me gobsmacked czcams.com/video/5XRjp7vClT8/video.html
@@YesterdaysPapers I'd offer The Zombies for consideration...but, other than those two, it's no contest
@@DwellerHollowMusic You beat me to it! I was just about to say the same thing. The clip of the Hollies singing On a Carousel was impressive, but to my ear they could sometimes be a bit strident. I think the Zombies definitely had the edge. How could they not, with the great Colin Blunstone?
@@annaforehan7784 in fact Colin Blunstone was considered to replace Allan Clarke when he left The Hollies C 1972
Wish I could go back and snatch one of those See Emily Play singles. Wow.
While I knew many of these acts from the time, I’m always surprised to learn of so many quality bands that just didn’t quite make it and simply faded into obscurity. Also, great insight into what musicians like Jeff Beck, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker were doing before they each became household names. Another fascinating flashback YP, thank you kindly.
Cheers, Linda!
My Friend Jack has to be one of the best songs of 1967
I love the Hollies! It was wonderful to see them featured on a Yesterday's Papers video.
I saw them in the Albert Hall in 1991. I've also seen Graham Nash solo, twice.
This video started out with the great Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane record then went to the Hollies all time best On A Carousel then went to the Smoke My Friend Jack which to me is this underrated band best hit. 2023 has been gloomy with the horrible earthquake in Syria and Turkey and in the U.S mass shootings and the Tyre Nichols tragedy but when one hears The Eyes Of Blue Supermarket Full Of Cans any gloom goes away fast with this snappy tune. Thanks again Yesterday's Papers for posting this video and it proves the UK in February 1967 was putting out some great music.
Thanks, Darrell. Your comment about the Eyes of Blue is spot on. That's such a great, upbeat track. It's definitely the sort of song that will brighten your darkest day. The chorus is irrestible and always brings a smile to my face. "You can't find love like us in a supermarket full of cans". That's genius.
Ah... Some beautiful, eargasms here! And some new songs to look up, along with favorites such as Strawberry Fields. Thank you for the memories, Y.P.!
I'm not a massive Beatles fan, but God, "Strawberry fields Forever" is one the most magical songs ever recorded. I feel sorry for The Game, they seemed to be a good group, they just had bad luck.
"My Friend Jack"! Didn't become familiar with this until I bought the "Nuggets II" anthology and heard this superb acid-era gem in middle age. That and the follow-up ("High In A Room") - those two songs alone entitle The Smoke to immortal status regardless of the obliviousness of corrupt gatekeepers like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
If you want to find buried treasure you gotta dig for it
I very highly recommend you get their debut album.
Ive had it for about 5 months and cannot stop playing it.
@@toddblanks Thanks; I bought the anthology on CD some years back after getting hooked on "My Friend Jack" and "High in a Room."
The Beatles were in a class of their own, clearly.
Love Hate Revenge became a huge hit here in NZ for local group The Avengers.
Nice hat, Brian 3:08 😍It's lovely to see the footage of 1960s London, people looked way more happy and chilled out back then, no cell phones, just enjoying life and good music. "Strawberry Fields" has always been one of my favorite Beatles songs, there was nothing that sounded like it before and there been nothing quite like it since, I love hearing your instrumental version of that song too, YP. Always cool to hear when you use it in your videos. Great video and music as always 😘❤
Thanks, Sophie. Same here, "Strawberry Fields" is one of my favourites by the Beatles. That song never gets old.
@@YesterdaysPapers 🍓❤
That's how I feel too when seeing footage from those times. Nowadays everyone always seems to look so worried - with reason, of course - and they all wear such dull utilitarian clothing, often with tattoos showing (eurgh!).
@@Krzyszczynski Hear! Hear!
@@Krzyszczynski F tattoos, it's trendy now to cover yourself with more graffiti than the wall of a truck stop bathroom, where does it end
So many great bands in that era. Nice to see that the Smoke and the Poets were featured in this segment.
Brilliantly enjoyable and informative, as always. I'd forgotten all about 'My Friend Jack eats Sugar Lumps', which I loved at the time. And now it's stuck in my head 🤪
Thank you, Annie. "My Friend Jack" is indeed incredibly catchy.
These were the records I hunted for in the 1980s when the comps started coming out. Bought some crummy unknown 45s along the way to finding the gems though. Your videos are a blast. Every time you namedrop another killer record I used to own like Supermarket Full Of Cans I laugh out loud!
I have that on a decca Mods era compilation (which also has a ton of other great stuff)
"...only seen LSD on their chequebook..." lol!
Yes, CHEQUEbook, not checkbook. B@#$%y US-originated software ....
Thank you for another wonderful video. I love this series, to me 1967 is the best year ever musically. And there's always some gems to discover or re-discover.
Canterbury scene is so cool. Egg, Caravan, Matching mole, GONG.
Hatfield & the north.
You know you're big when a member of the Monkees likes your song!!
The amazing things you find. Tony Hicks' isolated guitar is wonderful.
What a glorious list of songs, YP! Not a bad one in the bunch. It's both a shame and a joy that the charts of the time were so filled with classics that so many great groups couldn't get a foothold of their own. The real winners were us, spoilt for choice and only so much in the pocketbook. ♥
Gobsmacked to see The Soft Machine in there! Excellent work per usual 👍
Especially Daevid Allen being on the first single who later found one of the most psychedelic bands of all time, GONG!
I can't get the tune to 'A supermarket full of cans' out of my head now. A very catchy tune.
The Beatles settin' the scene for the year with a psychedelic masterpiece but I'm a biased Scouser hehe
You have a right to be biased. The Beatles are as we say in the States the GOAT-greatest of all time. I am a native Angeleno and biased towards the Beach Boys compared with other 1960s American bands. We have an understanding mate.
@@chrisbacos ALSO
@@chrisbacos Ladies and Gentlemen from Los Angeles, California........
@@chrisbacos THE DOORS (my 2nd fave band man)
@@paulnolan4971 The doors & jefferson airplain.
Im more kinda newer to jefferson airplain than the doors.
But jefferson airplain are very unusually different and very interesting.
Jefferson airplain are different to any other band of that time and in a great unique way.
White rabbit sounds like nothing else, full stop!!!!
Many good songs, but Strawbery fields was two thousant years from the other.Hello from Slovenia.
Thank you, YP, for another video in a great series. I love The Soft Machine. Loved seeing such a youthful and vibrant Robert Wyatt, before he had that unfortunate accident, where he fell out of a fourth story window and became a paraplegic. Didn’t stop him, though. He had a prolific solo career.
Did Robert Wyatt always perform bare-chested? I've a fairly distinct memory of his doing so even at their history-making appearance in the 1970 Promenade Concerts at the Albert Hall.
@@Krzyszczynski Robert didn’t always perform bare-chested. There’s lots of photos and footage of Robert playing with a shirt or sweater or whatever he happened to be wearing that day. He’s just well known for playing without a shirt.
Another excellent episode on the sixties psychedelic music scene. I'd never known about The Eyes of Blue before this. Strawberry Fields Forever is an absolute masterpiece in my opinion.
A few things I hadn't heard, really good as usual. The lacklustre reviews of Strawberry Fields/ Penny Lane are hard to believe...Tom Mcguinness told me trying to be as good as The Beatles was certainly an issue for MM.
I got bored with a 45 I owned as a small boy, and can remember squashing it down in the dustbin. That record was an original copy of Vaccum Cleaner by Tintern Abbey :-) Hhhh...however I do own the Gibson fuzz pedal John Mcnally used on Have You Ever Loved Somebody.
Sorry to go off topic...I have been telling the guy who runs the Del Shannon fanclub about your excellent psych era Del film..also there is an interview with Del's wife and son on YT now which is interesting.
Keep up the great work! Marc Lemon
Ye gods! What an astonishing month for music!!!
I love your videos! I never knew that Mellotronics put an ad in a newspaper to thanks the Beatles for using their machine. So I learn something and will love to had that ad! Thank for you high quality video about psychedelia! 😎
Cheers, Pierre-Olivier!
Love My Friend Jack by The Smoke 🚬 ! 💊
Another super one. The series fills in the gaps behind the big bands of the time. So many good groups and songs.
RIP Jeff Beck and David Crosby again.
A great time, when groups were proud of the music they made. Some excellent singles in this episode
Still the best musical page on YT. Thank you for the rundown!
Its interesting to note that i played my 17yr old grandson the track by Vanilla Fudge
You Keep me Hanging On
He went ape shit!
No kidding he thought it was incredible & a blast
Couldn't believe it was cut in the mid 1960s.
He said it could be played anywhere today & gain a following!
Lord he makes me proud & hes carrying on my great love of incredible music.
I read a funny article about the Manfreds singer Paul Jones whos real name was Paul Pond was an Oxford Uni student & so desp for dosh, auditioned for the Manfreds! Rest is history!
I also liked The Herd, they made some good stuff
You should do a vid on Terry Reid he was a brilliant singer & could have been Zepps lead singer but for another commitment.
Thanks for the vids
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Any music from the origional
Tyrranausaurus Rex from the Magical Moon & Lofty Spires days
My special faves from then.
1967 surely was one of the best ever years in music!.
Two of my favourites there too, wooden Spoon by The Poets and My Friend Jack by The Smoke.
Superb YP love these longer videos
What a time to be alive, as far as popular music was concerned! I propose that late 66’ - early ’67 was the real beginnings of “rock music”, as we think of it today, with its mix of psychedelia, blues, and pop with hooks, elements of jazz & classical. The creative, innovative 'ante' seemed to be constantly raised with each passing month, both musically and lyrically - The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Soft Machine, Cream in England, and on the other side of the Atlantic, in the U.S. with bands like the Airplane, the Dead, Buffalo Springfield, the Doors, MoI - all well on their way to steering popular music away the 45 rpm singles format, to rock music’s primary format, the album.
Yes, there it is, the mother lode. What extraordinary richness. It was pretty much exhausted by '72-'73, with a few exceptions.
Please Release Me got to #3 on the Australian charts. The Beatles charted at #1. What were the English thinking?? 😂😂
An extraordinary video---informative and entertaining. Love Yesterday's Papers!
I can't stop recommending this channel - excellent - love the contemporaneous reviews.
Wooden Spoon hit me immediately! I had to look that song up and holy moly, it is incredible!
I never would have heard this if it wasn’t for you! Thank you.
Great song!
This has to be the best one of these yet, as February 1967 was *such* a heady month. There had of course been a few UK acts making excellent groundbreaking psych in '66 (Yardbirds, Beatles, Donovan, Stones, Creation, Mick Softley, Barry Mason) but it was in this month that everybody suddenly seemed to jump on the bandwagon, and came out with masterpiece after masterpiece! I love how you also focus on a lot of the trippy stuff that was making it onto the B-sides, often even better (and wilder) than what made the A's. There's not a single that I think you missed in this episode and I greatly look forward to March which will bring us delights from The Jimi Hendrix Experience (will you be counting this act? Two-thirds was British, lol!), Pink Floyd, Jeff Beck, The Move, The Small Faces, The Attack, The Zombies, The Drag Set, Magic Lanterns ("Time Will Tell"), The Montanas ("Anyone There"), Alan Bown ("I Really Really Care") and if we go by US release dates, The Yardbirds and Eric Burdon & The Animals (although I understand if you want to stick with the later UK release dates on those). As usual, I'm also amazed at all the rare footage you are able to find, especially for The Smoke and John's Children. I nominate this series of '67 British Singles clips the best thing to happen over the past year...I'm having a blast!!!
Thank you very much, Spirit of 66. Glad you enjoyed this episode. Definitely a great month for singles.
What a splendid video again YP! And what a great bands you had in the UK! "Strawberry Fields Forever" is my favorite Beatles song! Interesting how psychedelic music developed! Thanks a lot! 🎶👌
Along with Tomorrow Never Knows and Rain, SFF is among my fave rave Beatles track. Unbelievably amazing. All ground breaking.
The Game made some incredible singles, the best in my opinion being Gonna Get me Someone. Always loved My Friend Jack. Breathtaking. As is, It could be Wonderful.
Love Graham Bond's music, especially his Holy Magick stuff.A very troubled soul bless him.Love Is The Law album is well worth checking out.
Thank you for another great video.
Penny Lane is a McCartney masterpiece of melody
It seems like these reviewers didn't get it at first.
Even in the context of all the great music on the channel, Strawberry Fields Forever seems like one musical era closing and a new one beginning. 1966 was the marketing getting more psychedelic and more complicated. Strawberry Fields announced that pop music had arrived at that new place. But it takes hearing it along with what was contemporary at the time to really appreciate it. What a great history lesson all these videos are.
Great music that month. Few years before my Mother shat me out of her womb but love these songs.
What a month! Everything is good. Thanks Yesterday's Papers! Hope you do a late 70s- early 80s version of your channel one day
Great video! My favorite year in rock music. Thank you!
Excellent video, this month's singles are fantastic :)
What I love is that this gives me more deep dives in my music selection. Good job. Love what you are doing!!!!
Thanks!
Fascinating as ever, thanks.Great to have some more info on The Smoke, always loved that tune. But the revelation here is the Graham Bond track. If there was ever a British band that came close to the brutal cyclic attack of The Velvet Underound's 'Sister Ray" that might be it- plus riffs based on Arabic quartertones as well! Wild!!
Agreed! That's an incredible single. I was amazed when I heard that song for the first time a few years ago.
The GBO had provided a kind of foretaste to You've Gotta Have Love Babe, in the form of Spanish Blues (from their Sound Of '65 album). It has the same quasi-Arabic wailing on the alto sax, and could have just as aptly been called Moroccan Blues or something of the kind.
Wonderful as always, love what you produce!
The Beatles' mistake was to release the single as a ''double A-side'', which divided their extraordinary success in two.
It was John's whim, as I have read, that he did not want to give in; he wanted his ''Strawberry Fields Forever'' to be on the A-side, but ''Penny Lane'' was much more commercial.
''Release Me'', by Engelbert Humperdinck, is a great song, but no better than the two Beatles songs.
Thanks, YP. 😀😀😀
The SFF/PL single actually made #1 on the Melody Maker charts, and stayed there for three whole weeks! But it was #2 on the other three UK charts. It didn't really make a difference that it was a double-A; the group had already released two other double-A's that had effortlessly topped the charts, and SFF/PL sold around the same number of copies as those. It was mostly just bad timing, because "Release Me" was one of those fluke mega-successes that took the British adult contemporary audience by storm. But it did make #1 in Melody Maker, and of course in the US, Canada, Australia, Germany, Sweden, etc. Also, I doubt anyone today remotely remembers "Release Me", while "Strawberry Fields" is being taught in advanced college music courses worldwide! 😃
@@spiritof6663 Unfortunately, I suspect a lot of us remember Release Me!
@@annaforehan7784 Why not. Might not be to everyone's taste, but Gerry did a good job.
Its proved itself as a staple song of the era at least.
Amazing Some of these clips! I never see the same twice.
Loved it. You always reveal great musical treasures.
Thanks!
@@YesterdaysPapers you’re welcome 😉
SFF not just a great single of 67, but of all time
beatles were truly well ahead of the curve, all the releases alongside strawberry/penny sound like mashups of animals and who. carousel is such a fine tune this many years later.
Love - Hate - Revenge was covered by New Zealand band The Avengers. it peaked at No.2 in August 1968, giving The Avengers their biggest hit.
The song was originally released by doo-wop group The Del-Satins as ‘Love, Hate, Revenge (If I Want You To Cry)’ in January 1967.
Winced when I heard Kim Fowley's name.
He was a creep.
Me too.
Now I just wanna wander round that supermarket with those those tunes playing 😂
Great footage 👍
That makes me think of the simon & garfunkel song
save the life of my child😄
I was just a 7-year old kid, but my older brother who was 14 in 1967 brought home every new Beatle album the day it was released. I do remember hearing this for the first time. I love it, but the Monkees were my favorite band at the time.
Psychedelic episode of y.p. for sure! Excellent show this week, a real step beyond into the strange. Thanks y.p. T
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Excellent coverage as usual YP! Love the channel!❤
Thank you very much, Michael!
Had a feeling this was going to drop today! Thank you again for highlighting some great tracks that deserve more love. And interesting that you note that some of these tracks sound like late 70s punk
My friend jack eating sugar lumps....Now I understand why Syd Barrett was eating sugar lumps in that picture.
Wonderful times, thanks for posting them. Fabulous. Good time for you
One of my favourite games with these videos is to pause them whenever a review column is shown and read the other comments in it. No time for that right now, but I'll be back!
Have you listened to a song/record i bought eons ago & although i dont have it anymore
I remember all the words &
Melody.
No one i know remembers it but it was by a band called
Rare Bird & entitled
Sympathy..
Its a fantastic sound.
Peace
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Soft Machines' Love Makes Sweet Music, I searched for that single for decades! At one time I thought I had imagined the release, although I never forgot the chorus line with 'Love makes sweet music'. And then came internet and CZcams...and there it was. Half a century later!
It's typical Soft Machine, not in the least because of Robert Wyatt's oddly spaced out and yet intimate voice, I never heard another singer with that kind of voice. I got all his post-SoftMachine records, the man's voice is like from a fairy tale....
What a great month !
A GREAT SHARE ! I was just 17 then , ha , ha . but still playing releasing /albums today , enjoy these magic times . cheers from france ritchie .
Another great installment on the British scene. Prefer Strawberry Fields also for its daring sound. Penny Lane is more conventional. Funny, I just played that youtube video of the Hollies recording On a Carousel for my gf to show her just how great their harmony singing is and how great their musicianship is. She loved the drums! The Hollies are #1 in vocal harmonizing, no? That Game single is excellent but I hear The Who more than late 70's punk. Just my feeling. What a great time to be alive in 1967--such creativity on both sides of the Atlantic. Thanks again YP. You always kill it.
I agree 100%, the Hollies were the British band with the best harmonies. Glad you enjoyed this episode, Willie. Cheers!
"Strawberry Fields Forever"/"Penny Lane" got this video a like right off the bat.
Fantastic!! As Always My Friend!!! So Much Great Psych Out Their, That Even As A Psych Head I Am Still Discovering!! Excellent Video!!?
Cheers!
Wow deep dive into less known brit pop extraordinary YP I've stacks of books on this subject nice to see others get an education of the history of 60's British pop music ts very deep ! As usual great job YP PEACE!
I love BONEY M. They have a version of ''My Friend Jack'', but I prefer the original version of ''The Smoke''. (5:33)
I always felt the sound of Penny Lane was intentionally Beach Boys inspired, esp. the chorus harmonies. Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane... what a brilliant single!
Yeah, I think even McCartney admited that "Penny Lane" was his attempt at imitating the "Pet Sounds" sound.
@@YesterdaysPapers cool! It shows :)
Yup...McCartney has stated previously he was thinking of "clean, Beach Boy-sy sounds" when recording it!
Some great rarities here!
Love Hate Revenge goes so hard, favorite track of this selection. Been a big fan since I discovered it on one of those rarities compilations.
Great song. I heard it for the first time on the "Nuggets II" boxset.
@@YesterdaysPapers it reminds me mor of American mid 67 psych. Ahead of its time
"Morning Dew" was written by Bonnie Dobson. ;)
Boney M covered "My friend Jack" in the 70s. 😱
Once again some great rarities here! I love The Game
Love to hear 1968 stuff
Cool video! Most of the artists and songs were new to me.i really enjoy these musical history vids!
I love this longer video--20 minutes! I was wondering what was up with the "anti-lust" groups--never heard about that. Enjoyed especially the "Graham Bond" and "The Game" segments--great sounds. Those are a couple bands I want to further check out. Also, 03:10 had me laughing out loud--"Those Disgusting Moustaches"! Would have loved John and Paul writing a song about that for Ringo to sing!
Hahaha! I can totally see that. "I'd like to be / under the sea / with those disgusting moustaches / in the shade".
"THE SINGLE FAILED TO CHART" How much more do we have to hear this? because it is unfortunate that a lot of good songs were ignored by the public and quickly faded into obscurity.
In Your Tower by The Poets (the b-side) is also a great tune
Where was I when CZcams cut me off in the middle of my long-winded comments about this post? Oh yes, I was speaking about my love of early Soft Machine. My favorite of all of these, they were magic with Daevid Allen, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, and last (to the end) Ratledge. What a wonderful band, the first single, and the first album. I'd better post before CZcams decided I've talking too long.
Nice review from awesome YP again. Watch you next time!
Love the Soft Machine…
How cool to see pics of a Beatle & a Monkee hanging together! I have to say I find it amusing and surprising that many listeners and musicians in that era didn't warm up right off the bat to some of the most melodic and hook-laden music ever written and recorded by the likes of the Beatles, Hollies etc. I found them catchy and highly satisfying as could be when I first heard them as a teen in the 80s....people are strange indeed!
On this day feb 20th in 1967 my mom turned 21, and getting spoiled by the embarrassment of riches of brilliant songs being released one after another that year.